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Right, and r/politics, which is the left leaning version of T_D, doesn’t have any reprimands despite having frequent calls of violence against cops. It’s a double standard.

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Where are the frequent calls of violence against cops from r/politics?

That community is definitely for protesting the police, but I haven't seen anything calls for violence like this get upvoted or past the mods:

- https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/20...

You probably wouldn't have seen those comments, with mostly single digit points, on TD either. They'd be buried deep, well beyond the point most people read the comments.

TD has the population of a midsize city. Of course there are a few violent comments if you look hard enough.

This is like quarantining Hollywood because a few celebrities made death threats in 2017.

Still, /r/the_politics has the population of a large city, so by that logic, if they have these frequent calls of violence against the cops then it should be easy to point those out, right?

Also, if it's now the case that these cop-violence-inciting comments are hidden everywhere, then why does it matter if /r/politics has them too in the first place?

I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on it, but I found a couple fairly easily:

> Just do a 180 turn on gun reforms. They’ll take an armed population more seriously.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c5og99/there_are_...

> It's because protests don't achieve anything. ... Riots on the other hand...

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c5og99/there_are_...

None of those are the same thing as what was described. One is describing riots, not calling for them..

By that logic, "get a rope" isn't a death threat. Maybe they just want to build a bridge.

I think you're doing some motivated reasoning.

"Get a Rope" is not the same as saying pick up a rifle against cops.

Again, that's not the same as just talking about the effects of riots, and at this point I think you have cognitive bias by thinking these things are the same.

If someone says "hitting the TV won't accomplish anything, pressing this button on the other hand..." they're suggesting you press that button.

And similarly that comment about riots was a suggestion to riot.

This isn't a refutation of a single thing that I said. "There's calls for violence elsewhere" doesn't negate any point I made. Do these communities have similar heavy-handed moderation practices? Do they also break tooling that communities use to self-police like the downvote button or report button? Do they also have rules that openly and proudly ban any posts or content that doesn't fit with their narrative?

This ban wasn't about an isolated instance of calls for violence slipping through. It is the culmination of years of cultivating a community and moderation practices that have made the admins have to interfere a disproportionate amount relative to the rest of reddit. You can find examples of bad behavior from individuals on any subreddit, but can you find a pattern of behavior that breeds and incites it driven by the moderators of a community itself?

Absurd. I am a frequent reader of /r/politics. The two communities are absolutely nothing alike.

it didnt used to be. but the whole Trump event horizon has had the effect of twisting that sub's idea of what is appropriate.

It no longer understands what the center is.

It’s now becoming obvious the 20-something heroes who’ve taken power from the techies who built these platforms are ensuring the US doesn’t make the same mistake it did in 2016.

Considering Trump won close to 50% of the vote - regardless of that silly electoral college - I don’t see this ending like they think it will.

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